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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
April 20, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Ant Group, Bitcoin (and China), China, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Controllable anonymity concept (China), cryptocurrencies, David Pan, Digital currency, Digital Currency Electronics Payment (DCEP), Digital payments, Digital wallets, e-CNY, Fintechs, Jack Ma, People's Central Bank (China), Social Credit (China), Sweden (and digital currency)}

Why China Is Making a Bold Gamble With Digital Currency

_{“Controllable anonymity” means that all transactions between individuals are visible to the People’s Bank and trackable by the Chinese government} _{Heather Zeiger

April 20, 2021

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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

Last week, China announced the national rollout of the electronic yuan, a plan in the works since 2014. The e-CNY* or Digital Currency Electronics Payment (DCEP) was piloted last year in four major Chinese cities: The digital yuan resides in cyberspace, available on the owner’s mobile phone — or on a card for the less tech-savvy — and spending it doesn’t strictly require an online connection. It appears on a screen with a silhouette of Mao Zedong, looking just like the paper money. In tests in recent months, more than 100,000 people in China have downloaded a mobile-phone app from the central bank enabling them to spend small government handouts of digital cash with merchants, including Chinese outlets of Starbucks Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 8, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Economics

Tagged
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernard Fickser, Bernie Sanders, Cashless society, Central vs. private banks, Creation of Money (online book), cryptocurrencies, Deborah D’Souza, Digital currency, Federal Reserve (Fed), Fiat currency, Inflation (currency), Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), Paul Krugman, Taxation, The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy (book), Thomas Palley, Warren Mosler}

Central Banks vs. Cryptocurrencies: Why the Growing Tension?

_{Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which is gaining ground, holds that government should just print as much money as it feels it needs and then raise taxes to cover shortfalls} _{News

March 8, 2021

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Business and Finance, Economics}

On the way to explaining how a cryptocurrency system might work, financial analyst Bernard Fickser asks readers to think about the crucial difference between money, as held by a private bank — we’ll call it Merchant Navy Bank — and a central bank operated by a government, say the U.S. Federal Reserve System (the Fed). In his short online book, The Creation of Money, Fickser distinguishes between private banks and central government banks. Private banks start with money that already exists. The money that Merchant Navy Bank lends for mortgages, for example, is contributed by depositors who agree to tie up their money for several years in savings certificates. In return, they get a higher than average rate of interest. Read More ›